The Brazilian Grand Prix - Qualifying Part 2 Formula 1

Qualifying issue to start in ten minutes but they cannot go out in

these conditions. We had the same conditions five years ago, and I was

speaking to David Coulthard about it, it was very funny, we just need

to brace ourselves and keep chatting and make sure the people at home

stay with us, because when she get going, these ten cars will be

electric and it will be worth the wait. This season has been dominated

by the mastery of Sebastian Vettel. 13 wins in the season, he will be

equalling Michael Schumacher. He is a master of Formula 1. These records

mean so much. He has great human spirit. He can be hugely emotional.

He can see aspects of life where he will enjoy this for as long as he

lives. He is a very endearing boy. You would be very happy to have him

as a son of yours. He is a top-quality guy, a great ambassador

for our sport. He was incredibly emotional. He was kind of choked at

the end. He said, this might not last for ever, we have got to grab

hold of these moments. Of course, he is the star, it is box office, but

it takes more than an individual to win. Strategy is vital in Formula 1,

as Gary Anderson will explain. Formula 1 on race day, when the

lights go out it is mathematical. They have to perform many

calculation is to come up with the best risk strategy. Tyre

management, fuel load, car and driver weight have to be taken into

account to ensure peak performance. The rate of the car plus the driver

less any fuel has to be a minimum of 642 kilograms -- the weight of the

car. Let's say it is 56 lap race, it means 2.5 kilograms per lap times 55

laps, equals 140 kilograms of fuel for the race distance. The car now

weighs 782 kilograms. Confused, yet? Stick with me for a while longer.

There will also be a safety buffer. Be warned, any extra weight comes at

a cost in performance. As speed increases, so does the stress on the

engine, meaning drivers may be asked to turn down their engine performs,

conserving fuel and resisting the stress on the engine -- reducing.

Tyre performance and durability also come into play. How many pit stops

and which laps you have to stop. Each team has legions of tacticians

analysing the race lap by lap to see how the strategy has do change.

Considering a pit stop as an overall loss time of approximately 18

seconds, this fresh tyres have to make up the lost time. Get this

wrong and it is difficult to make up the lost time. If the team has

everything right it is down to the driver's skill, reliability and luck

to see the driver through to the chequered flag, and if they are

really lucky they could be on the podium. Sebastian Vettel has hardly

been of the podium this season. You can learn about the science of

Formula 1 on our website. Loads of content on there. It is a great

column that Lewis Hamilton dies prior to every race. -- that Lewis

Hamilton does. It is stopping raining, Christian is on the pit

wall. Can you hear me? I can. Are you dry? Very. These are

confusing times, what are the thoughts of the drivers? It breaks

the rhythm a little bit. They are getting their thoughts together

again. It looks like it is drying up. They don't like getting out of

the car. It looks like it is going to start in five minutes, Eddie has

a question. You are evaluating the crossover time, the full wets to

when you may be able to get a couple of laps for the intermediates, is

that how you are looking at the situation?

We have said how quickly the water can disappear. There's quite a of

standing water. The medical car is going around, still a lot of

standing water. I would be surprised if it did get to intermediates. Ten

cars pounding around at pace, the spray will be dissipated over the

track. My guess is we may see somebody taking chances at the end

to get the benefit. You may well, it is going to be a driver caught,

still a lot of standing water. Somebody may take that punt -- a

driver call. In terms of crossover time, wet to intermediates, what are

you thinking? You're talking 28, 29, something along those lines.

Everybody is going to be good to the screen in the first flying lap. What

an awkward question. He doesn't want to give his secrets away! Fine!

We watched a piece about the strategy of the teams and the men

who are behind the box office, how many people have you got in the red

Bull team who work towards this qualifying session? Within the

company we are over 600 people. About 80 of them are here. The rest

are working very hard back in the factory in Milton Keynes. We have

people in the factory who are supporting us. It is fascinating for

anybody at home, you are sitting on the pit wall and you have the team

behind you in the garage. That strategy coming from Milton Keynes

as well, it is an incredible pull together. You won the constructors

championship. How do you celebrate with those guys? We are going to

have a big bash at the end of the year. What doesn't get recognised is

it is teamwork at its most extreme. Getting over 600 people to work

collectively in one group for one common goal, it is teamwork at its

best. Thank you for your time and hopefully we will hear from you

during this session. Let's pop up to the commentary box. How do you see

this going? COMMENTATORS: We are getting ready

for some real action, Q3 will be getting underway in a couple of

minutes. Red Bull sending cars to the end of the pit lane. Intent on

getting a quick lap in. The teams are so good at running the engines

and not overheating because, they cut the number of cylinders that the

car is running on. I know it is not as hot as some places. Even so there

is no other way to cool the engine. They run over 100 degrees without

pulling themselves. They probably left 75 or 80 degrees in temperature

and they will be creeping up, the driver will be watching the

temperature. They monitor that in the garages as well with the race

engineers. This is something they do preseason to know how long they can

run the car before it gets too critical temperature. They will go

to 140 degrees before you need to start worrying about it melting

itself so plenty of margin. Red Bull don't want to be caught short, they

are going to be first out. The downside is you lose a massive

amount of temperature from your tyres. If purple denotes cold, they

are pretty cold. You can see the orange glow of the radiator. Prior

to the start of qualifying you are allowed to hit your brakes, not once

you are in the qualifying session -- hit up your brakes.

The Red Bulls are at the end but everyone else seems to be waiting,

clearly they think the track is going to get drier and drier. 47

minutes between track action here. The final Q3 session eventually gets

underway at Interlagos in Brazil. The two Red Bull is our first onto

the circuit. We have Daniel Ricciardo. Full wet tyres, the blue

side wall. I think there might be a chance for intermediates by the end

of this. I am not sure if it is a good thing to do. At the end of the

session, somebody will take a gamble and it will be of value. It has lost

the heat, we have gone to boring black. Everything has gone. Sitting

there, for two minutes is a long time, we can see a bit of colour

inside the rim, where the brakes are, they will be slopping and

sliding round, would imagine intermediates for the last run at

least. A final prediction, who will be on pole position? That is a

question. Think Rosberg, because he has done a good job up to now. If he

can get a clear lap in. You get the tyre temperature quicker. Let us see

what happens, the Red Bulls are out there as you can see, the track map

showing where everybody is. Webber has the first clear run but Vettel

is behind him. Rosberg and Hamilton, Alonso are on track further back, I

think all of them are out. Grosjean, yes, he is out, Hulkenberg, so is

Vergne and Rick doe, so the track getting busier. -- Ricciardo.

Webber goes on to the lap. This is the difficult bit of the driver. How

do you assessors how much grip you have to play with? You have no idea.

The track has changed since you were last out. This is just using your

experience and best judgment to try and avoid the wet patches, you can

see how much spray there is. With every lap a car completes you chuck

that spray up into the air and it gets thrown off the race track, so

the track will get faster and faster, we have a 22.6 first 22.2

first sector from the Red Bull, which would be an indication of a

cross over to intermediate tyre, so they may not do more than they could

come in at the end of the lap, but they may choose to do one lap on the

full wet, to get themselves back up to speed, get heat penetrated into

the up right and the brake system, before coming and putting the

intermediate tyres on. Coming up to the second checkpoint. Webber still

ahead of Vettel, but it was Vettel who had the quicker first set.

Grosjean is faster than either of them in the first sector now. Coming

through the second set, to 1.09 for Webber

ON RADIO: Very low regroup. Understood. Keep up the face. You

can see the back end of the car switching. You can see, very low

rare grip. Alonso has been told for inters. We are not far off the cross

over time. It is 1: 28.8. We could see the cars on intermediates any

moment. There is not a lot of running water on the track. A bit of

oversteer as he climbs up the hill. He is faster in the first sector.

Grosjean looking good. Rosberg looking good. This could be quicker

than either, he is coming straight in, we won't see how fast it could

have been because they have decided to go for intermediates straight

away. Rosberg, is he goes going to get a lap in. It's a banker lap.

Sometimes it is a good idea to put a banker lap in and he splits the Red

Bulls so it is Vettel, Rosberg, Webber. Ricciardo has rowed a time.

Valtteri Bottas is out of this part of qualifying, he has qualified 13th

on the grid but Grosjean has decided to go for the intermediates. There

they are, fitted to the car. Still just under six months.

ON RADIO: What do you want to do Sebastien? No hesitation from

Vettel. He knows what he wants. An interesting difference in strategy,

they could have brought them in straight ja. Lotus brought Grosjean

in straight away. On the other hand the intermediate needs to be at the

freshest. So perhaps Red Bull are happy the guys have a bit of

experience of the track and they will have the intermediates on at

the end of the session. Mark Webber Dais into the pit, so he is coming

from his intermediates as well. He is running just a bit ahead of

Vettel. So he will be able to get his car services. There is Vettel

joining in. Vettel might have to coup ever so slightly. They do do

under three second pit-stops. They had a record in Austin. It was

magnificent work by the Red Bull crew. Meanwhile at Lotus they have

sent their man out already. Grosjean, only one car in the top

ten, so away he go, Vettel. Kovalainen didn't make it into the

top ten shoot out. But we have Massa and Alonso. Alonso is fifth. Massa

in ninth. Hulkenberg in Q3 again, in the Sauber. He has had a good record

of going into Q3 recently, he has maintained it again on this occasion

can he get a bit further up the order? We will see. Jean-Eric Vergne

one to watch. We know his wet weather pace can be astonishing, he

has decided to come in They are bailing out. They will get

investigation from their engineers telling them what the others are

doing. Rosberg is in as well. So, is this going to work to Lotus's

advantage? Mercedes looking attentively down the pit lane.

Everyone turning to see as the guys are ready to fit the intermediate

times now. Not the kind of pressure that is on in the middle of a race

but it still needs to be done cleanly. Four minutes to go then in

the final part of qualifying. Mercedes stacking their cars as

Rosberg gets going. Hamilton has come in, Hamilton currently third

fastest, behind Rosberg, stacking the Ferraris. Looking at the first

sector from Grosjean, a 22.1. That is not as quick as we saw from the

Red Bulls. It is going to take a lap or to get the tyres in. Find where

the track conditions are. It is going to be about that last flying

lap. Could be the last man across the line. He could be on pole this

after noon. It is exciting stuff. Grosjean never had a pole position

in Formula One, could he challenge for it in these conditions, or are

we going to see Mercedes break the stranglehold which that existed for

Red Bull. ON RADIO: We think there is rain at

the end. Make sure the first laps count. If that the case Lotus's

decision was a good one. They got him out first on the inter#3450ed

yachts You can take off so many Ss at the end of laps! Crucial lap for

Grosjean. Grosjean, 1: 27.7. Put under massive -- massive pressure.

You can see the delight. Nobody knows if that is going to be enough.

Vettel is faster. We join Webber as he was looking up into turn seven.

Sound bg very tentative as he tries to accelerate -- sounding out of

nine. This is him into ten. Vettel fastest in the first sectors

Rosberg has done the fastest last sector, but as hopes his lap, this

is looking quite cautious. He comes up the hill, he is quicker in both

first and second sector. Vettel is going quicker. He is fastest in the

middle sector. Let us see what Webber does, is it enough to

displace Grosjean? Yes, but Vettel is going faster than him behind, got

another lap here, Mark Webber. He will get maybe two laps in in fact,

as you see, there is Vettels. He goes fastest. 1: 26.4. That was a

good lap in conditions he is still trying to reed and understand. What

is going on behind? Rosberg and Hamilton are both on laps here, but

they are about a tenth down in the first sector, on the Red Bull, let

us see how they can make up time We join Rosberg with a big power slide

in nine. Tidy out of ten. Hesitant as he goes through the dip,

through 11. He is down on the sectors. Not quite as quick as the

Red Bulls. Well, this is going to be his last

flying lap, so one more lap to see if he can show the form he had on

Friday. Quickest in both sessions. Hamilton almost identical to the

second sector point, so they are not as quick as the two Red Bull, across

the line, Rosberg, he is quicker than Webber. Just under a tenth

faster than Webber. Let us see what Lewis Hamilton can do. So evenly

matched the Mercedes driver, who will come out on top in Brazil?

Hamilton is not as quick on the lap. He still has another lap to go. He

will see chequered flag. Flons in sixth position. His first sector

reasonable but not anything particularly dramatic. Fernando

Alonso. Vergne has gone sixth. He is ahead of the Ferrari. Looks to me

that Vettel was doing a slow lap, to give himself one flying run at it.

He is coming up to the line now. That is him starting his lap. Red

Bull are good at timing their laps. Alonso goes second. Up to second

place. Just ahead of Rosberg, but only by the narrowest of margin,

very tight behind. Massa goes seventh in the Ferrari. Grosjean has

made a mistake in the middle sector and dropped a bit of time relative

to his best. It is about the last run for the line. Ricciardo has gone

seventh. Hulkenberg has been pushed down tenth. He has seen chequered

flag and across the line goes Grosjean. He is sixth, with that

time, so it is not going to be a front row start for Grosjean on this

occasion, he is behind the Red Bull, and the Mercedes and one Ferrari, of

Fernando Alonso. Alonso once again dragging a great time out of the

car. What is going to happen in the closing moments? Rosberg is second,

he hasn't managed to beat Vettel's time. Sebastian Vettel is out there,

he is on a lap. Lewis Hamilton is on a lap. It is not a quick lap. Vergne

could improve on his ninth place, we talked about his wet weather

prowess, at the moment he is behind Daniel Ricciardo, but this is a

better lap copping up from Jean-Eric Vergne, he goes eighth. So Ricciardo

for once in the wet pips his team-mate Jean-Eric Vergne, let us

see as Webber comes across the line, he stays in fourth position. Rosberg

second, Alonso third. It looks as though Sebastian Vettel has done it

yet again, let us keep an eye on Felipe Massa, he is on a reasonable

lap here, it is a reasonable lap. Let us see how far up the top ten it

puts him. It would give the fans something to here about. It is not

enough in the end -- cheer about. He stays down in ninth position. Alonso

has qualified third, but once again, pole position has gone to Sebastian

Vettel. His ninth pole of the season. The 45th of his career. The

eighth consecutive for the team, because of course they have been

sharing pole positions between himself and Mark Webber in some of

the recent events but it is still eight consecutive pole position

authorise for that team. A remarkable performance, not as pole

positions as he scored in 2011 but still a good effort. Good effort

from Alonso, he qualified third here, Webber fourth. Hamilton in

fifth. Grosjean sixth. Ricciardo in seventh. Vergne 8th Massa ninth and

the top ten will be completed by Hulkenberg. It will be a Red Bull

and Mercedes on the front row for the start of the Brazilian Grand

Prix. You will have to to forgive us for

going off air we have hugely overrun. All of the interviews and

reaction will be on line o on the web sigh so look that the. We will

be back with you again tomorrow, on BBC One, at 3.00. Same time, same

places it has been wet, wet, wet in Brazil. Who is going to win

tomorrow? I couldn't take it away from Vettel Mercedes look like they

might be able to take to it the Red Bulls very possibly. See you at

three o'clock. What will the weather be like? Who knows